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AppleGirl |
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June 25, 2005 03:01:38pm |
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movie_of_the_week
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Suburbia! |
This movie is near and dear to my heart. I am fascinated with the 1950s suburbs and tract home developments. I grew up in one. At the time, everyone thought these houses were ticky-tacky. However, by today's standards they were very well-built. Quality touches like REAL brick masonry (not thin facades), REAL hardwood floors, REAL wood window mullions (not little plastic sticks), REAL wooden doors (not plastic), and REAL wood siding (not plastic with wood texture molded in).
The neighborhoods were fun for kids, lots of play places. (The best was when there were still some of the old farms left. We used to run through the tall cornfields, way fun.)
Living "out in the sticks" was pretty boring for the women, though. The dads left for work in the morning, driving the one car (did you notice the houses in this film all had one-car garages?), leaving the moms stranded in suburbia, nothing there except kids and TV. No wonder so many of the moms where I grew up were "hooked" on "diet pills." Had to make it a lot more interesting for them!
I never get tired of seeing aerial views of curving roads and tract houses. There's something creepy about the whole thing, creating a town where there were just wheatfields before. Like there's something missing. Yet it somehow works out for people, developers are still doing the exact same thing.
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D.J. Waldie is a riveting book about creating a town out of nothing. It's about Lakewood, California, and it is a brilliant read, even if you're not that into 1950s suburbia.
Sorry I rambled so much! Just loved this film is all.
This post was modified by AppleGirl on 2005-06-25 21:59:05
This post was modified by AppleGirl on 2005-06-25 22:01:38
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Visaman |
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June 28, 2005 05:55:36pm |
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Playground |
Did you notice the dangerous playground the children were playing in? With all of that metal and hight? Today's children are all much better off without playgrounds and in front of their computers.
I went to school in the 70's and we had a fort ontop of a dirt hill, and steel balancing beams and a really rusty spring to bounce on. All of those things were taken away of course for today's children.
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Spuzz |
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June 28, 2005 11:11:37pm |
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movie_of_the_week
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Re: Playground |
No, I mean seriously.. you're being serious?
I hardly EVER heard of someone getting seriously hurt on metal playgrounds.
On the other hand, I seriously fucked up my spine (and I think I wasn't lucky I wasnt paralyzed) after landing wrong after sliding down a plastic slide when I was in Elementary school.
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